The Best Job in the World!

"The Best Job in the World" competition finalists line up before a swimming test in a resort pool on Hamilton Island, about 950km (590 miles) north of Brisbane, May 4, 2009. There are 16 finalists from 15 nations in the tourism promotion competition aimed at attracting visitors to Australia's northeast tropical state of Queensland

Ben Southall telephones his parents on Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday Islands, after being awarded the job of caretaker of an Australian tropical island, May 6, 2009. British charity fundraiser Southall beat 15 other finalists in the tourism promotion competition aimed at attracting visitors to Australia's northeast tropical state of Queensland. He won 150,000 Australian dollars (about 111,000 U.S.dollars) and the role of "Island Caretaker" on the Great Barrier Reef for six months. (Xinhua/AFP Photo).